Technology

Android has a reputation for being less secure than Apple’s iOS, but Google says its platform has gotten a bad rap. The company has released its fourth annual security report, a 56-page document that details everything Google has done to keep Android users safe. The bottom line, according to Android …

Apple clung to LCD screen technology for the iPhone for years, and it only just moved to OLED for the iPhone X. That’s the display design favored by Samsung, Google, and most other companies making flagship smartphones. However, Apple isn’t content to stick with OLED panels forever. A report from …

Since every camera-equipped Android phone comes with a camera app, most people will never look further. But some OEMs do a better job than others at creating great apps for photography, and there are also lots of interesting and possibly important features that can only be found by using a …

Last year, Google launched Instant Apps, a way for developers to give users a native app experience that didn’t involve having to install anything. Users would simply click on a link on the search results page and the instant app would load. Today, the company is extending this program to …

Google beat Apple to smartwatches by a year when it released the first Android Wear devices in 2014. A lot of industry watchers were expecting smartwatches to be the next must-have gadget, but even Apple hasn’t sold as many wearables as it had hoped. Early leaders in smartwatches like Pebble …

AUSTIN — Should we start with the good news or the bad news first? The good news is technology is going to radically transform healthcare in the next two decades. It’s been said before and we should continue to say it — if ever there is an industry that is …

AUSTIN — At SXSW 2018, it seemed like any presentation with blockchain in the title was guaranteed to be at full capacity. Cryptocurrency mania has been at a fever pitch, with tales of overnight millionaires who invested in Bitcoin or Ethereum or others. But much like the internet IPO boom …

Earlier this week, bombshell news surfaced of 13 supposedly critical security flaws in AMD processors. While at least some of the flaws appear to be real based on independent confirmation from security researchers, the manner and nature of the disclosure lifted a number of eyebrows. A simultaneously released report from …

As Intel has rolled out fixes for Spectre and Meltdown, it’s worked closely with Microsoft to make the required microcode updates available to as wide a group of hardware as possible. Newer motherboards might receive an update, but older systems, including the Ivy Bridge rig of this author, aren’t exactly …

Logitech has been making PC speakers for many years, but none of them have had RGB lights in them. In this age of LEDs in mousepads, headphones, and keyboards, how are speakers so far behind? Logitech is looking to rectify this with the new G560 gaming speakers. They’ve got a …